“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.”

—  Susanna Wesley

Letter to John Wesley, June 8, 1725

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Mother of Methodism 1669–1742

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